• Booksmarks for March 1-4

    • Artifice and truth: From Mean Streets to Shutter Island
      To salute the surprise success of “Shutter Island” (top of the box-office for two weeks running), [Jim Emerson] took some excerpts from an introductory interview Scorsese did for the now out-of-print 2005 MGM DVD release of “New York, New York” and interpolated frame grabs from that movie and others. The result might serve as a primer on how to watch any Martin Scorsese picture.
    • Jeff Bridges Voice-overs Almost Scotched Hyundai Oscars Ads
      With just a few weeks to go before the March 7 Oscar ceremony, Hyundai was told its commercials were unfit for air. The problem? Actor Jeff Bridges has been doing voice-overs for Hyundai since 2007. But Mr. Bridges is also a nominee for best actor in this year’s contest for his role in “Crazy Heart.” So the automaker is keeping the ads but has enlisted seven other celebrities to read the marketing copy.
    • An End Without End: Catastrophe Cinema in the Age of Crisis
      “Dusting off the tedium and ash deposited by Hollywood’s recent spate of catastrophe movies, Evan Calder Williams takes aim at their world-affirming pessimism and calls for some real apocalypse”
    • Are You F*cking Kidding Me? Junket Jornalism Gone Bad.
      Not that the bar was ever set high for the Junketeering set, but this Alice In Wonderland conference seems particularly high in the doofus quotient.
    • A Third Way: The Rise of 3D
      Anthony Lane gives an exhaustive overview of cinema and the Z-axis
    • We Champion Stuff – Five Years of Twitch Love.
      “Twitch turned five years old back in September of 2009 and over those years Todd and his small army of writers have turned up trailers, shed light on numerous ‘strange films from around the world’ and have become a happy crossroads between the art-house and the grindhouse.”

     
     

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